The Sussex Coast - online book

A Literary & Historical travel guide to the Sussex Coast

day; and that he who would not do this, should forego his church, his house and his home and never be permitted to claim them again. This was ordered by William, archbishop of Canterbury, and all the bishops of England; and the King gave them leave to depart, and so they went home, and these decrees were in no respect observed, for all kept their wives, by the king's permission, even as before."